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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London G.B. Whittaker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y bishopBingham in 1245, which brought the greatwestern road this way, to the detriment ofWilton. In the city stood a house of GreyFriars. Trinity-hospital, founded in thereign of Richard II. is still in being,and maintains a master and 12 poor men.In the N.E. part of the city is the church ofSt. Edmund, which was formerly collegiate.The church of St. Thomas was built bybishop Bingham as a chapel of ease to thecathedral, and contains several handsomemonuments ; it is ornamented with a well-adorned tower, in which are eight bells,with chimes. St. Martins church consistsof a nave, two aisles, a chancel, and a towerat the west end, supporting a spire. TheInfirmary is in the adjoining parish ofFish-erton, and is a large brick building. Inthe city are also mi.ny hospitals, alms-bouses, and other charitable foundations,which afford asylums to the aged and in-firm, and provide for the education of theinfant poor; besides which, there are twofree grammar-schools of very considerable FlateXXX.
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